Era Four

Era Four: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)

The Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1803-1806

Red Jacket, “On the Religion of the White Man and the Red,” 1805

Robert Fulton and the Clermont, 1807

Shawnee Chief Tecumseh’s “Address to General William Henry Harrison,” 1810

Missouri Compromise, 1820

Letter of Thomas Jefferson to John Holmes, April 22, 1820, Concerning the Missouri Compromise

Monroe Doctrine, 1823

Gibbons vs. Ogden, 1824

Indian Removal Act of 1830

Cherokee Nation v. Georgia, 1831

Worcester v. Georgia, 1832

Andrew Jackson, "Veto Message Regarding the Bank of the United States," 1832

South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification, 1832

Andrew Jackson, "Proclamation Regarding Nullification," 1832

Register of Cherokee Indians Who Have Emigrated to the West of the Mississippi, 1834

Nathaniel Hawthorne Travels the Erie Canal, 1835

The Fall of the Alamo, 1836

The Trail of Tears, 1838

The Lowell Offering, 1840

The Treaty of Guadeloupe Hidalgo, 1848

Horace Mann, "12th Report on Education," 1848

The Oregon Trail Diary of Mrs. Amelia Stewart Knight, 1853

The Old West Art of George Catlin